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This episode tells of an Epirote named Phalaecus, who was torn to pieces by a lioness because he had taken her cub up in his arms. A new fragment of the Milan Diegeseis published by C. Gallazzi and L. Lehnus confirm that the story occurred in this part of Aetia 3.

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Fr. 62a (=60 Pf. = SH 268A) EM 212.36 sqq.

brephos: a newborn child, properly of humans. Callimachus in the 3rd book of the Aetia uses it also for a lion cub.